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i've started to give perfumes (safe perfumes that almost everyone likes, or if i know the person well, something i know they will like). Of course, given that they like to wear perfume and not allergic to it, perfume is the best gift because even if they don't love it, they will still like it enough to wear it. You also don't have to worry about size or anything like that. It's much much easier finding a perfume someone will like than finding a hat,shirt,pant,dress that they will like and not feel compelled to return or give away. Thoughts? What are other gifts that are "fool-proof"? Some other examples i can think of are skincare and nail polishes.
I can hardly find perfumes I like myself and I'm really picky about nail polish and other makeup. I'd never try to make a gift of these items unless I know exactly what they used...or I knew they used anything you put in front of them.
Not exactly a perfume-wearer (or giver) here, but I had to get up and move at least twenty feet away from a highly perfumed woman who sat in front of me at a meeting last week.
I arrived early, thankfully, so had my choice of alternate seats - but I had to keep moving farther and farther away until I was out of range. The meeting was packed - I feel sorry for latecomers who had to sit closer to her.
She was an otherwise nicely groomed and dressed older lady, and I don't suffer from perfume allergies, but whew!
She REALLY overdid it. And in a large crowd, seating in close proximity in a limited public place, that's most unpleasant as well as thoughtless on the part of the perfumee.
My boyfriend is a perfumer and runs a business where he re-creates old, discontinued scents in shaving soaps and aftershaves, as well as dipping his toe into creating fragrances. I thought of course that he would get me new and interesting perfumes for gifts, but he refuses.
By his estimation, perfumes are one of the worst gifts to give to someone because they are so intensely personal, reacting to your skin chemistry. For instance, my favorite perfume is one he hates out of the bottle, but he claims it smells completely different on me. There are fragrances that I hate out of the bottle that I like on him, or hate on him but like on me, or like out of the bottle and hate on both of us. His favorite perfume, Dzing!, smells very masculine on him, but smells super sweet on me. You would never even know it was the same fragrance!
I would not want to receive perfume, soap, or any scented or other personal care product unless it is a brand I already use.
I also prefer not to receive anything that is essentially going to clutter up my house even further, such as candles, picture frames, knick-knacks, wall-hangings, etc.
Also, please no wine, unless it is a case of the single-serving sizes. We're not avid wine drinkers, so there are already 10-20 bottles sitting unopened in our basement.
IMO, perfume is a horrible gift to give unless you know what fragrance the woman wears. I am very sensitive to certain perfumes and absolutely despise anything too sweet or heavy.
I don't want scented gifts of any kind. Ever. Someone made sure I got a box set of Royal Copenhagen cologne one Christmas in a gift grab bag. 100% pure eau de neurotoxic chemicals. I purposely left it under a chair at the party.
I like Amazon gift cards. There's always something I want from Amazon. Or if we live in the same town, take me out for dinner. That's what most of my friends do on our birthdays, take each other out and spend time together. It's my favorite gift. And it doesn't smell like anything at all.
i've started to give perfumes (safe perfumes that almost everyone likes, or if i know the person well, something i know they will like). Of course, given that they like to wear perfume and not allergic to it, perfume is the best gift because even if they don't love it, they will still like it enough to wear it. You also don't have to worry about size or anything like that. It's much much easier finding a perfume someone will like than finding a hat,shirt,pant,dress that they will like and not feel compelled to return or give away. Thoughts? What are other gifts that are "fool-proof"? Some other examples i can think of are skincare and nail polishes.
Perfume is definitely not a fool proof gift. I have really bad allergies/asthma, and just being near someone with perfume will trigger a flare!
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